How the Future of Work Looks Like?
Predictions for the future of work
✅ OUTPUT FOCUS: TIME WILL BE REPLACED AS THE MAIN KPI FOR JUDGING PERFORMANCE BY PRODUCTIVITY AND OUTPUT
GREAT WORKERS WILL BE THE ONES WHO DELIVER WHAT THEY PROMISE CONSISTENTLY
ADVANCEMENT DECISIONS WILL BE DECIDED BY CAPABILITY RATHER THAN WHO YOU DRINK BEER WITH AFTER WORK
Life-Work Balance: The rise of remote will lead to people re-prioritizing what is important to them
Organizing your work around your life will be the first noticeable switch. People realizing they are more than there job will lead to deeper purpose in other areas
Bullshit Tasks: The need to pad out your 8 hour day will evaporate, replaced by clear tasks and responsibilities
Workers will do what needs to be done rather than wasting their trying to look busy with the rest of the office
Health & Wellbeing: A lack of commute will give workers 25 extra days a year to do other things
Workers will exploit the freedom they have to organize things more freely in their day. Afternoon runs, morning meditation, 2 things a lot of people I know now do
Personal RPA: robotic process automation will transform work for individuals
No-code tools that enable workers to build bots that automate menial parts of their roles will be huge
SkullDeath of HQ: the office is dead but offices will persist. They’ll be used less frequently then hardly at all
Co-working, subscription clubs, will emerge that let workers who prefer that mode of work to operate from there
Remote Living: Work from anywhere RVs will become huge business
Associated business parks and services will spring up. This will happen even more rapidly as self-driving tech emerges
Expect a @Tesla product in this space
Life-work balance: massive increases in part-time and freelance work
A recognition that we no longer have to sacrifice work for living, we can organize work around our lives
Community-Led SaaS: as no-code continues to grow, tech is barely a barrier
Communities become the most important most a company has
Remote Visa: small nations coming together in order to attract remote workers at different stages of the year
Huge opportunity to synchronize education to enable families to be more fluid in their locations
Meeting Death: wasting 2 hours travelling to a meeting will end. The benefits of in-person are eroded by the benefits you get of not traveling
Conferences and quarterly networking events will becomes more important for cultivating in-person relationships
Personal choice: the smartest people I know personally are all planning to work remotely this decade
The most exciting companies I know personally all plan to hire remotely this decade
~90% of the workforces we’ve spoken to never want to be in an office again full-time
Written over spoken: documentation is the unspoken superpower of remote teams. The most successful team members remotely will be great writers
Companies are searching for ways to do this more effectively. Tools that enable others to write better will explode.
